[lug] Tape always rewinds after mt command

[William Petty]

Thanks that worked.  I never knew that the nst device existed.  On our Sun 
machines,
the mt commands have always worked, although they are rmt devices.  Maybe those
are no-rewinde by default.


At 06:53 PM 1/3/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 18:36, William Petty wrote:
> > I am using Suse 8.1 and needed to read in an old tar tape that was 
> created as
> > multiple files.  My problem is, when I use mt to skip to the second file,
> > it does so,
> > pauses for a few seconds, and then rewinds back to the beginning of the 
> tape
> > before returning the command prompt.  So, any tar command always reads the
> > first file on the tape (Which also rewinds when done).  The tape drive 
> is an
> > Exabyte 8500 8mm and the SCSI controller is an LSI (Symbios) 53875.  All
> > drivers are default from the 8.1 installation.
> > Thanks for any info you can provide.
>
>
>Try the non-rewind tape device:
>
>   /dev/st0  <== "scsi tape 0" device
>   /dev/nst0 <== "non-rewind scsi tape 0" device
>
>using:
>
>   mt -f /dev/nst0 ...
>
>hth,
>Ed
>
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